Around noon, a wild turkey crashed into the window of the classroom at the Our Lady of Lourdes School, said school principal Carol Polito.

"He literally flew through the window right from the outside. Thank God nobody was injured,” she said. “I think it’s just amazing that not only did the bird come flying through, but the noise it made; it was a very, very loud noise.”

Technology teacher Josh Marris was able to coax and walk the turkey out of the building. He said the turkey didn’t appear to be hurt, although he did see red on the stairwell when he was taking the bird outside.

“I heard the smash; the fifth-graders screamed,” he said. “They went screaming down the hall, some of them were holding the door shut."

He then went in the room and began the process of coaxing the bird out.

“We’ll remember this one for a very long time,” Polito said.

Dean resigns after spray-painting parking sign

JACKSON TWP., Ohio -- The dean of the Kent State University Stark Campus, who resigned abruptly last week, did so after being stopped by security while spray-painting a parking sign on neighboring Stark State College of Technology’s campus.

Betsy Boze said in an interview Tuesday that she “was simply correcting an error on the sign.”

Spray-paint was used to deface two signs on Stark State’s campus, according to police. Boze said the spray-paint was “not graffiti."

“But it was simply removing an arrow pointing to the parking lot that was incorrect and correcting it,” she said.

Boze will not face criminal charges.

Ex-Scout leader accused of stealing Girl Scout cookie money

TROUPSBURG, N.Y. -- It’s one thing to get caught with your hand in the cookie jar, but it’s a lot more serious if the jar turns up missing entirely.

Bath-based state police on Monday charged April Martineau, 28, of Troupsburg, with fourth-degree grand larceny — a class E felony — and third-degree falsely reporting an incident, a misdemeanor, after she allegedly lied about a burglary at her home and later admitted to keeping more than $2,000 worth of cash and checks raised during a fall 2008 Girl Scout cookie sale.

According to troopers, Martineau allegedly reported a burglary at her home on Dec. 8, 2008, and claimed $1,200 in cash and $1,000 in checks raised for the Girl Scouts had been stolen. When Martineau repeatedly dodged a state police investigator who was trying to follow up on the initial report, authorities began to question the legitimacy of her burglary claim.

“She was avoiding me for two months. It was strange. She was reporting a burglary to her home and I thought it was odd that the homeowner who was reporting a burglary to her residence was not availing herself to me for an interview,” said Inv. Marci Trimble.

Trimble said when she stopped at Martineau’s home earlier this week, Martineau confessed to keeping the money and cooperated with the investigation. Trimble said before the confession was made, she already reviewing large purchases Martineau had recently made.

Trimble said Martineau had spent the money on “family items” but would not identify specifically what the items were.

Private eye's secret camera leads to theft arrest

WINCHESTER, Mass. -- A Winchester man was arrested after allegedly getting caught on a hidden camera entering his neighbor’s apartment and stealing money from a dresser drawer.

William J. Austin Jr., 24, was arrested about 11:30 a.m. Feb. 20 and charged with breaking and entering during the daytime with the intent to commit a felony, and larceny over $250. According to the police report, Austin was arrested after a resident of a nearby multi-family home reported money missing from his apartment.

More than $9,000 in cash had been stolen from the victim’s home since October, police said.

According to police, the victim said he believes someone may have a key to his apartment and was using it to gain entry when he was away. In order to catch the intruder, the victim hired a private investigation firm to install a video surveillance system in his home.

On Feb. 17, the video captured a man on tape inside the apartment.

“We viewed the DVD and observed a white male in a hooded sweatshirt entering (the victim’s unit), and ransacking the unit,” police wrote in their report.

Austin admitted to police he had entered the victim’s apartment on Feb. 17, after going next door to see him. When he knocked on the door and there was no answer Austin allegedly tried the handle and found the door unlocked.

He admitted to stealing $40 from a dresser drawer, but told police it was the only time he had gone into the victim’s apartment, police said.